PhD position: EEG-based auditory brain-computer interfaces

The work will be performed within the research division STADIUS at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven, Europe’s most innovative university (Reuters). STADIUS' major research objective is to contribute to the development of improved digital (control and signal processing) systems that incorporate advanced mathematical modeling techniques as a crucial new ingredient.
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This job opening covers a PhD position (4 years) at the STADIUS group of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of KU Leuven (Belgium) in the frame of a project on 'natural' auditory brain-computer interfaces (BCI) for tracking of auditory attention via electroencephalography (EEG). The goal is to design accurate and calibration-free BCI algorithms for decoding auditory attention to natural speech, with applications in hearing aids and hearing devices.

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